Washington Irving Quotes
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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We are very committed to putting forward a really bold message for the state of Colorado.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.
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With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.
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Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
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I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
